Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

got some questions.

1. Do sigils work in offhand weapon when u use ur mainhand one? e.g. I’m having a sigil which gives me +x when I hit at crit in my offhand weapon. Does it only proc when I crit with my offhand weapon or does it proc in generell even when I’m critting with my mainhand one?

2. Do I lose my sigils when swapping to an kit? Do I furthermore lose the “Reinforced Shield” trait when switching to a kit?

3. There are sigils that give u bonus effects when u swap to the weapon the sigil is planted in. The engi does only have one weapon slot. I wonder if kits do count as a weapon by their own. Does the weapons sigil activate when I switch to that weapon while having a kit equipped?

Thanks in advance!

1. Yes.
Example : if you have a sigil of air (chance of lightning on crit) on your offhand, you can get a lightning bolt when critting with your mainhand.

2. Yup. Indeed.
All stats related to a weapon are lost when equipping a kit.
All stats related to a weapon are kept when equipping a kit, except its base damage.

3. Nein.
Engineers currently do not have access to “on-switch” sigil effects (and is the only profession in this case).
Engineers do have access to “on-switch” sigil effects with kits.

2013-04-03 : Post updated due to necroposting

JonPeters.5630:

We are working to make sigils work with kits. Our intention is to push this as soon as possible. Hope that helps.

Jon

It does, but it still makes it feel like weapons are pointless to a kit engineer.

I could wear a level 1 white pistol and it wouldn’t matter to my DPS at all if I was in kits. THAT is what is the most disappointing.

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

Yay

JonPeters.5630:

We are working to make sigils work with kits. Our intention is to push this as soon as possible. Hope that helps.

Jon

How is this going to work for pistol/shield and pistol/pistol users?
Which sigil will be applied to the kit? I’m guessing it won’t be both?

Or will you have separate sigils for the kits?

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

Sigils are definitely more important. No argument there.
But losing roughly 2k HP when switching to my medkit to heal up can prove to be highly annoying.

sigil of strength + grenade kit. People are really never gonna leave grenade kit now if we get stats + sigil. I guess they could always fiddle with the weapon damage to keep it in line. Either way looking forward to that.

NickDollahZ.5348:

sigil of strength + grenade kit. People are really never gonna leave grenade kit now if we get stats + sigil. I guess they could always fiddle with the weapon damage to keep it in line. Either way looking forward to that.

Let’s see some pre-nerf Pistol 1 in action.

JonPeters.5630:

We are working to make sigils work with kits. Our intention is to push this as soon as possible. Hope that helps.

Jon

Are there any plans to do the same with conjure weapons, or are those going into a different direction?

This is relevant also because the weapons have extra stats in pve, and different rarities as well, unlike pvp.

Dear Jon Peters,
you just made my day!

Flaunz.5273:

Dear Jon Peters,
you just made my day!

Make that two of us. Excuse me while I pick my jaw up from the floor. This is awesome news.

Omg there is hope for the Eng class ? amazing !

Ummm here’s what I have noticed in regard to this. I use a p/p engineer and a sb and axe/warhorn ranger and then the harpoon gun for both.

1. I use superior rune of perception (precision) and force (5% damage) on p/p and bloodlust (power) and umm the 3 stacks of might when swapped (geomancy? I forget) to on axe/warhorn.

2. All seems fine on the ranger and works as intended with no issues.

3. The engineer….well kitten now we have issues both good and bad.

A. I submitted a bug report about this the other day but when I die/go into a downed state I either don’t get my stacks of precision f/ kills anymore or it takes a while after I start killing before they start registering again. It seems to have gotten better though. Most times I was forced to relog to fix this. What I have found is that once I hit a downed/killed state that if I wait a bit BEFORE I kill anything again all is fine. If I IMMEDIATELY start killing again then I don’t get my stacks of precision at all (relog) or for quite a while.

B. I have a harpoon gun on my engineer with sigil of speed on it (10s of quickness after killing an enemy). Here’s the thing though….it procs EVERYTIME EVEN THOUGH I’M USING GRENADES 24/7 IN THE WATER!!!! So I get the 10s of quickness f/ harpoon gun after killing an enemy in the water even though I’m using grenades? Umm huh? Somehow something is WRONG because even though I am accomplishing what you HOPE to implement in the future I cannot do this on land with any of my kits (I had speed sigils before on my pistols and never noticed this while using a kit).

A quick question to the developers. I noticed a website that CLAIMED that if you dual wielded a wpn like p/p for ex; and you had say a sigil that gave stacks of precision/power/etc. but only had 1 equipeed and a different sigil in the other wpn say +5% damage for example you only get HALF the benefit!! So in that example I’d get 25 stacks of +5 precision instead of +10 precision in my case. What’s the verdict? Also if dual wielding and using 2 sigils of force would we get that 2x so 10% increased damage or only 5%? I never found a definitive answer f/ Anet on these topics; only speculation f/ us peons.

JonPeters.5630:

We are working to make sigils work with kits. Our intention is to push this as soon as possible. Hope that helps.

Jon

God bless you if you make it work, its my only desire for engis.

Having both an ele and an engineer, could these changes also apply to conjures as well in place of the tied in stats for the conjures? The current stats for the conjures are less than what actual weapons provide, and the stats particularly for the frost bow do not appeal at all.

I hope sigils and weapon stats apply to kits and conjures in all instances. Why should your equipped weapons become obsolete, costing you stats, when you choose to make use of your utilities that already restrict you from using other skills?

It’s good news that the technology for applying weaponstats to conjured weapons (which kits basically are as well) is being investigated.

NeryK.5301:

1. Nope.
Example : if you have a sigil of air (chance of lightning on crit) on your offhand, you will not get a lightning when critting with your mainhand.

Is that really how it works? The wiki says the exact opposite.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sigil

“Sigils that trigger on critical hits can trigger on any critical hits; the critical does not need to be scored with the associated weapon’s skills. For example, a character with an off hand weapon imbued with a Sigil of Rage can still gain quickness with a critical hit with their first three skills.”

Day=Made
TY Keep up the good work.

NeryK.5301:

1. Nope.
Example : if you have a sigil of air (chance of lightning on crit) on your offhand, you will not get a lightning when critting with your mainhand.

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you there. I use P/S with the sigil of speed on the pistol and fire on the shield. I’m able to proc the flame blast quite easily without using my 4, 5 skills. I also still get the swiftness effect once the battle is done.
I tested this to be sure, prior to writing this.

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

This by far was the best part of my day.

Thank you so much for answering some of our concerns! Communication like this lays our fears to rest more then any patch note could.

Thanks Jon!

This doesn’t sounds like primary weapons may get a nerf and that is really bad for rifle only builds that uses rifles for their main source of dmg =(.

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

Holy crap Jon, you just made me a very happy person. Kits are going to be awesome now.

But and about turrets and other summons in general? Do you plan to make them scale in power with us as well?

I have hope that my time in engineer is not wasted, after Jon posted.

OMG finally

I might even start to work towards a legendary now, seeing as it won’t be completely useless once these changes go through.

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

Jon, your posts in this thread are the happiest thing to come out of the keyboards of ANet since GW2 released. Whoever made the decision in your office to have you guys talk to us more deserves a cookie.

/highfive

sigil of strength + grenade kit. People are really never gonna leave grenade kit now if we get stats + sigil. I guess they could always fiddle with the weapon damage to keep it in line. Either way looking forward to that.

I kind of doubt that what we’ll end up with are today’s kits + stat +sigils, they’ve probably balanced the current kits (or at least so they think) based on not having those things. There might be a brief period where we’d have all those things, while they make sure it all works, but at the end of the day I’m sure they’ll lower the base damage of all the kits to assume that you’ll have a level-appropriate weapon to bring them back up, and sigils to buff them up.

I think you are right about that one. Still some today kits would still be balanced with those changes. Just Grenade kit is…. Grenade kit…. 3 separate chances of procing things. 3 stacks of vulnerability…Crazy good scaling… everyone knows the story.

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

… kitten. THIS IS… THE ENGINEER~!

Well, that escaleted quickly. Sigils with kits will be Grenthkittyyeah.

If you are already answering some of these questions I am wondering. As the community would like Hammers be able for the Engineer, can you tell us. Do you guys have plans to give the Engineer a Hammer? Or Torch or Dual Shield?

Dual shield like both work like magnets sort of thing ^^;

Plus what are the plans for the turrets?

RobinotX.1604:

Plus what are the plans for the turrets?

Turrets? Yes please! And if you are going to do something with them sometime in the future; please also consider the turret models to show ‘racial diversity’.

That way an Asura would have turrets resembling Asura technology, Sylvari would have turrets resembling Sylvari ‘technology’ (naturology?) etc. etc.

Still, it’s good to see the Engineer getting some potential attention. Maybe someday I can pick mine up again… It’s just that the current (technologically inferior as per Asura standards) turret models just don’t cut it for my Asura…

RobinotX.1604:

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

Dual Shield?

Dual shield like both work like magnets sort of thing ^^;

MUST ressist not to post about that !

Thank you Mr. Peters, this is good news indeed. Now my 1.3k damage per grenade Engineer can be even better! While I absolutely love the DPS I can dish out, everything else seems lackluster..

As some people mentioned, turrets need something. And using a rifle for DPS is moot compared to the damage you can do with grenades, sometimes I wish I could shake things up a bit without sacrificing damage output :/

Woot thanks for replying Jon! Now I got someting to look forward too in my class!

Aveneo.2068:

RobinotX.1604:

Plus what are the plans for the turrets?

Turrets? Yes please! And if you are going to do something with them sometime in the future; please also consider the turret models to show ‘racial diversity’.

That way an Asura would have turrets resembling Asura technology, Sylvari would have turrets resembling Sylvari ‘technology’ (naturology?) etc. etc.

Still, it’s good to see the Engineer getting some potential attention. Maybe someday I can pick mine up again… It’s just that the current (technologically inferior as per Asura standards) turret models just don’t cut it for my Asura…

The most important part is to make it so turrets don’t do half the damage my skills do.

Personal burn ticks – 660-750 (depending on might)
Flame Turret ticks – 320?

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

You have no idea how happy this makes me. Thank you.

JonPeters.5630:

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I wouldn’t get my hopes up guys: Got a Ranger main, and 2 months after Mr Peters’s promises we’re still waiting for our quality of life changes.

Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll also get some super pro of super win underwater skills

./shrugs

Nymphetamine.2103:

JonPeters.5630:

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I wouldn’t get my hopes up guys: Got a Ranger main, and 2 months after Mr Peters’s promises we’re still waiting for our quality of life changes.

Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll also get some super pro of super win underwater skills

./shrugs

I think the difference is that unlike rangers, we don’t need a significant class overhaul. Sigils will go a LONG way toward adding a ton of build diversity to engineers. We need one thing really (I could live without weapon stats on kits, for example) and that is sigils. The obvious example of flamethrower+sigil of air mentioned by jon peters is a very good example of why this is important.

My only question is: how long? I know that Anet hates that question, but I figure I’ll try anyway. Within 2 months? Within 4 months? Within 6 months? A very rough ballpark estimate on when the devs think sigils on kits will be ready would be nice.

Nymphetamine.2103:

JonPeters.5630:

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I wouldn’t get my hopes up guys: Got a Ranger main, and 2 months after Mr Peters’s promises we’re still waiting for our quality of life changes.

Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll also get some super pro of super win underwater skills

./shrugs

Well, they hopefully learned from that. Plus, maybe your changes are harder then you think they are?

Nymphetamine.2103:

JonPeters.5630:

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I wouldn’t get my hopes up guys: Got a Ranger main, and 2 months after Mr Peters’s promises we’re still waiting for our quality of life changes.

Maybe if you’re lucky, you’ll also get some super pro of super win underwater skills

./shrugs

To be fair, saying “We’ll fix your class!” is a scarily vague statement. Saying “We’re getting sigils and stats on your weapon kits.” is pretty specific. Even if it doesn’t come immediately, knowing that those two specific changes are in the pipeline makes it more enjoyable to play. Now I can start working toward my legendary, knowing that eventually, that legendary will actually go to good use at some point, even if it’s 6 months down the road.

Basically, my biggest issue with the class has just been pinned up as something that’s going to be taken care of. I’m no longer worried that my class will be stuck in this state for the remainder of the game.

I was just making fun of the statement guys :-P I’m sure the changes will ready for the Dec 14 patch.

lucky beeches :-P

Step 3: Legendary Effects on kits!

Is this change to bundle/sigil interaction restricted entirely to engineer kits? Or will we see change propogate over to other professions as well?

I’d really love to have sigils working on my elemental conjures is all…

NoxInfernus.2361:

I’m sorry, but I have to disagree with you there. I use P/S with the sigil of speed on the pistol and fire on the shield. I’m able to proc the flame blast quite easily without using my 4, 5 skills. I also still get the swiftness effect once the battle is done.
I tested this to be sure, prior to writing this.

You (and the wiki, apparently) are right, I had botched my testing. I’ll edit my first answer.

This makes me excited. Please, please, please let my pistol’s “60% chance on critical to inflict bleeding” from superior sigil of earth apply to my grenades. ;-]

JonPeters.5630:

We are working to make sigils work with kits. Our intention is to push this as soon as possible. Hope that helps.

Jon

This will be glorious.

JonPeters.5630:

Step two is to get the weapon stats to apply to kits as well. We felt sigils was the more important first step because it creates build diversity. Flamethrower with sigil of air? Yes please.

YES!!!

My one question for Jon is this.

For those of us who use shield and pistol both with a sigil will using a kit favor the main hand or offhand or will both work?

tigirius.9014:

My one question for Jon is this.

For those of us who use shield and pistol both with a sigil will using a kit favor the main hand or offhand or will both work?

Sigils on your main-hand affect your offhand, and vice versa.

So, one can assume both.
Although, I would not be surprised if they decided to restrict it for balances’ sake.

Thanks Jon for this update and of course yay for the sigils and stats (in the future)! Now I really can’t wait for the next balance patch. FT2 would be my next suggestion for some little tweeks

Cheers!

xenoaroe.3894:

Step 3: Legendary Effects on kits!

Step 4 : Being able to dye kits.

Very good news!

Concerning his example with Flamethrower and Sigil of Air: isn´t there an internal cooldown on the lightning?

xenoaroe.3894:

Step 3: Legendary Effects on kits!

Pink plasma flames from the flamethrower? Yes, please!